“If the Oort Cloud is three light years away from our Sun, then it’s closer to Alpha Centauri than our Sun, right? So how can it stay around our Sun if the mass of Alpha Centauri is 1.1 times the mass of our Sun – wouldn’t the gravity of Alpha Centauri rip it away?”
The Oort cloud is an interesting feature of our solar system; a nebulous, spherical cloud of comets which marks the very outer limit of our solar system. The Oort cloud is also the source of our long period comets – those icy fragments of the early solar system…
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